The Sorcerer's World

So i have to plan two lessons for next week and i'm procrastinating a little here, but ah well..

It seems to me like a lot of methods of stalking may come in handy when actually it comes down to me being assessed next week.

I just wanted to know if there's anything you can think of which strikes you as being relevant.

Many of the students I have to deal with next week (whilst being assessed) have high learning barriers. I have to make sure that everyone comes away having learnt something new.

Aside from techniques such as reading peoples motives and appealing to their egos when directing learning, is there anything you guys can think of which can help me?

What are your experiences of teaching and how have you overcome learning barriers in the past?

If we're talking about someone of at least average intelligence, healthy mind, the biggest learning barriers I encounter are what amounts to old programs. Teens resist watching movies their parents liked because they don't want to be like their parents (a program). Old people resist new technology because it forces them to put aside old programs in order to upload new ones. Admittedly, I have been guilty of that from time to time. *LOL*

What I've found as a means to get beyond the learning barriers is to appeal to the sense of wonder. When I was in school, I was bored-to-death with history class and math class, though otherwise I was a straight-A student. It was only when I started working Renaissance faires in the course of my business that I learned how fascinating and ALIVE history really is. When it's just words in a book about stodgy figures I've never met and never will... who cares? But when it can come alive... that's a whole different thing!

In working with people on their spiritual path, I try to find something that really inspires them. For some, it's the idea of the double, gnosis, communication with a larger aspect of ourselves. For others, maybe it's the notion of becoming a sorcerer. I don't tell them up front that sorcery is just a trick - a tool in the hand of a warrior. What matters, at least in the beginning, is that they become hooked into the discipline. Once that occurs, they will stimulate their own learning - and THAT, of course, is the momentum that will take them wherever they want to go.

Thanks for the advice D it really actually helped. i am beginning to see myself as a teacher. As previously I was just a 25 year old kid who was suffering from S.A.D. (stress, anxiety and depression! all 'diagnosed' by a test done on a piece of paper. three cheers for the NHS!)

what also helped was pretty much all the advice that i've ever got off you guys.

i've started to see how easy it is to deal with the ones who are 'showing off'.

i've turned a few statements on the head(s?????!?) whatever the hell that means, and got them to realise that their reasons for acting up are completely stupid.

i think that's a good technique. feeding back their description of reality and showing them how silly it is.

haha.

and i've started to see it as fun. like all jobs should be. it was scary at first, but then i realised they were all just got-enough-money-live-at-home music students with no real behavioural problems just a tendency to affect melodrama.

i just figured since i moved away to go to college like everyone else did. obviously it was just the locale.

i'm rambling here not much content. tired.

any other views or do you find all your problems solved by just inspiring the hell out of them? cos i did. but i'm just a novice, i know a few techniques.

what's fascinating is reading carlos castaneda whilst 'playing' don juan in your head. he plays some hilarious tricks on poor cc. surely the funniest teacher ever...wait....don genaro is funnier, but some of the shit he pulled was wack, yo. couldn't live up to it. lol.